Orchards in California

AAA Chaffin Family Orchards

Butte, CA

Chaffin Family Orchards has farmed the same Butte County ground since 1924, now run by the third generation across roughly 2,000 acres of permaculture-based orchard and pasture. The farm grows more than 40 heirloom fruit varieties, presses an award-winning extra virgin Mission olive oil, and raises grassfed Angus cattle alongside sheep, goats, and chickens that supply pastured eggs. Farm tours run by appointment, and the orchard sells jams and other preserves made from its own fruit.

Aguilar Farms

Modesto, CA

Aguilar Farms brings over 70 years of farming experience to its orchards near Modesto, California. The family operation grows apricots, cherries, peaches, nectarines, and many other stone fruit varieties, with farming methods focused on drawing the fullest flavor from every harvest.

Alhambra Valley Beef and Silver Springs Ranch

Martinez, CA

Alhambra Valley Beef and Pears is a small family ranch in the Alhambra Valley/Briones agricultural preserve near Martinez, formed from two neighboring family ranches joined by marriage in 1941. The ranch raises 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef with no grain, pastured pork on a locally milled feed, chickens, and pears, with a commitment to humane livestock handling.

Andy's Orchard

Andy's Orchard grows premium stone fruit — peaches, apricots, plums, and cherries — on family orchard ground in Morgan Hill. Beyond fresh fruit, they sell artisanal jams, dried fruit, and chocolate-covered apricots, and run orchard tours and tastings where visitors learn how the fruit is grown before they taste it. The retail store runs seasonally, May 15 through December 31.

Apple Lane Orchard

Julian, CA

Apple Lane Orchard sits in Julian, the Cuyamaca Mountain town that built its identity on apples after gold-rush-era settlers planted the first orchards in the 1870s. Local growers here run u-pick weekends and sell fresh cider and pie through the fall harvest. No verified specifics on this orchard's current varieties or hours turned up online this session.

Apples and Art Orchards

Julian, CA

Apples and Art Orchards grows apples on Julian Orchards Drive, in the mountain district that built Julian's reputation as San Diego County's apple town. The name points to an orchard pairing its fruit stand with an art or craft element, though no public listing confirms current hours or varieties.

Apple Starr Orchard

Julian, CA

Planted by the Farmer family — the namesake of Julian's Farmers Road — this certified organic orchard grows about 1,000 apple and pear trees across 8 of its 28 acres. Open Friday through Sunday during apple season, visitors fill a bag for $25 (about 10-12 lbs), with a second bag at $15.

Argyres Orchard

Camino, CA

Argyres Orchard sits on Apple Hill in Camino, where some of the apple trees are more than 80 years old. Visitors pick their own apples and Concord grapes on weekends only, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting in late September and running until harvest is picked clean. Bring cash or a checkbook — the orchard doesn't take cards. Owner Maryann Argyres has run the place for decades.

Blossom Bluff Orchards

Parlier, CA

Blossom Bluff Orchards grows tree fruit on East Clayton Avenue outside Parlier, deep in the Fresno County stone fruit belt that supplies much of the state's peaches, plums, and nectarines. No details on varieties, u-pick access, or a farm stand could be confirmed online this pass.

Brian Ranch Airport UPick Orchard

Llano, CA

Brian Ranch is a u-pick orchard built around a private airstrip in the high desert near Llano, where visitors pick apples, apricots, grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, pumpkins, and sour cherries as each comes into season. Pilots need permission before landing at the adjoining airfield, a quirk that makes this one of the more unusual orchards in Los Angeles County.

B&R Organic Cherry Orchard

Beaumont, CA

B&R Organic Cherry Orchard grows cherries under organic practices in Beaumont, in Riverside County's San Gorgonio Pass, an elevation band cool enough for stone fruit that struggles lower in the valley. No public listing confirms hours or u-pick access.

BR Organic Cherry Orchard Formerly Wohlgemuths Cherry Orchard

Beaumont, CA

This Beaumont u-pick orchard, formerly known as Wohlgemuth's and now called BR Organic Cherry Orchard, grows mostly Rainier cherries — prized for lower acidity and higher sugar content than standard sweet cherry varieties. The orchard has operated organically from the same Eleventh Street property for years and is worth a call ahead before visiting.

Burroughs Family Farms

Denair, CA

Burroughs Family Farms in Denair, California is a family farming operation producing regenerative organic foods, including certified regenerative organic olive oil sold through its online farm store and shipped nationwide.

Cali-Dragon Farm and Orchard

Riverside, CA

Cali-Dragon Farm and Orchard is on De Anza Avenue in Riverside, a city built on the citrus industry that once made this part of Southern California famous. The name points toward dragon fruit, a crop small Inland Empire growers have taken up in recent years, though the farm's current offerings aren't listed online.

Calolea Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Marysville, CA

Since 1999, the Keller family has handcrafted Calolea extra virgin olive oil near Marysville from hand-picked olives — century-old Mission and Manzanillo trees plus Tuscan varieties — custom-milled and cold-pressed within 24 hours. Certified extra virgin by the California Olive Oil Council with acidity of just 0.13%, Calolea took Best in Show at the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition and pours its award-winning oils and balsamic vinegars at a tasting room set on 20 acres of historic olives.

Calolea Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Marysville, CA

Calolea Olive Oil began in 1999 when Monica and Michael Keller planted their dream on 10 acres in Loma Rica, near Marysville, California. Their handcrafted oil — certified extra virgin by the California Olive Oil Council — comes from hand-picked, 100-year-old Mission and Manzanillo trees plus newer Tuscan plantings, cold-pressed within 24 hours, and has won Best in Show at the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition; grass-fed cattle graze and sustain the orchards, and a tasting room sits on 20 acres of historic olives.

Chileno Valley Ranch

Petaluma, CA

Chileno Valley Ranch sits in a spectacular valley in the rolling hills of coastal Marin outside Petaluma, where ranchers Mike and Sally Gale have sold grass-fed beef and lamb direct to families for 17 years. Each fall the ranch opens its orchard for reservation-only u-pick apples, and the property also hosts weddings and volunteer days supporting sustainable agriculture and wildlife habitat.

Clearview Orchards

Watsonville, CA

Clearview Orchards grows CCOF-certified organic apples on terraced hillsides overlooking the Watsonville valley, three miles from the ocean. Families come in fall for u-pick apples — Fuji, EverCrisp, and Mutsu among them — or shop the Apple Barn for organic fruit, fresh apple juice, apple turnovers, organic squash, pumpkins, dried lavender, and honey, weekends during the season.

Crosscut Farm and Orchard

Julian, CA

Crosscut Farm and Orchard is on Farmer Road in Julian, California, in the apple-growing mountain country of San Diego County's Cuyamaca range, high enough in elevation for the cold-winter chill apple trees need.

Dewey Farms

Dewey Farms grows almonds, walnuts, and pistachios on a small family farm in Woodland, California, serving the greater Sacramento area for over 100 years.

El Dorado Orchards

Camino, CA

Apple Hill orchard on North Canyon Road known for the Apple Ridge Express, a miniature train that's run through the fall season for over 40 years. There's a fruit stand and bake shop on-site, open Friday through Sunday from late September to Thanksgiving. Listed among UC Davis's recognized farm trails and part of the 120-plus-member El Dorado County Farm Trails.

Eric's Valencia Orchard

Valley Center, CA

Eric's Valencia Orchard grows Valencia oranges at the corner of Cole Grade and Tyler roads in Valley Center, part of San Diego County's inland citrus and avocado belt. Valencias are a late-season variety, typically picked from spring into summer after the navel crop finishes. No contact info is listed online.

Fairfield Farms LLC

Pauma Valley, CA

Fairfield Farms, established in 2003 by Carol and Bill Steed, grows organic blueberries and avocados in Pauma Valley's one-of-a-kind microclimate north of San Diego. The family-run farm runs on-site solar power, its own reservoir, and on-site packing, with blueberries available April through June and avocados February through August in retail stores.

Frog Hollow Farm

Brentwood, CA

From its orchards in Brentwood, California, Frog Hollow Farm ships certified organic stone fruit prized by chefs — peaches, nectarines, pluots, apricots, and seasonal rarities like mulberries — through fruit clubs, farm box memberships, and pre-orders. A farm kitchen bakes pastries, pies, and galettes and crafts granola, dried fruit, and fruit spreads, with olive oil and honey rounding out the pantry.

Frog Hollow Farm

Brentwood, CA

Frog Hollow Farm in Brentwood, California grows legendary organic stone fruit — peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, apricots, and more — shipped fresh through farm box memberships, fruit clubs, and gift baskets. The farm kitchen and bakery turn the harvest into pastries, pies, granola, dried fruit, and fruit spreads, alongside estate olive oil and honey.

Goodness Orchard

Camino, CA

Goodness Orchard has been certified organic since 1990, a rarity on Apple Hill where most neighbors still spray. Visitors pick heirloom apples, peaches, pears, strawberries, blackberries, and tart cherries, plus 15 vegetable varieties including sweet corn and winter squash, with picking stretched from May through December. Call ahead for what's ready that week.

Guldseth Cherry Orchard

Guldseth Cherry Orchard grows cherries near Cherry Valley, in the San Gorgonio Pass area of Riverside County — high enough in elevation to get the winter chill hours stone fruit needs, unlike most of inland Southern California.

Hangtown Kid Apple Orchard

Camino, CA

Hangtown Kid Apple Orchard is on Mace Road in Camino, part of the Apple Hill growing district above Placerville, "Hangtown" being the old Gold Rush name for the area before it became El Dorado County's apple country. No further confirmed details on varieties, u-pick access, or hours.

Harris Orchards

Ripon, CA

Harris Orchards is on North Ripon Road in Ripon, a San Joaquin County town that calls itself the almond capital of the world and grows orchard crops throughout its surrounding farmland. No further confirmed details on Harris Orchards' specific varieties or u-pick access.

Hidden Star Orchards

Johann and Wendy started Hidden Star Orchards in 2002, growing CCOF-certified organic apples, blueberries, cherries, and pomegranates in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The fruit becomes cider, applesauce, preserves, and dried fruit at their San Leandro warehouse, sold through Bay Area farmers markets including Ferry Plaza and Heart of the City. A separate taproom and bakery in Camino pours 24 ciders on tap.

Hudson Orchards

Rio Oso, CA

Hudson Orchards is listed on Bear River Drive in Rio Oso, a small Sutter County community in the Sacramento Valley long known for peach and plum orchards. No working website or social page turned up in research, so current crops, sales, or hours could not be confirmed.

Hunter Orchards Pumpkin Patch

Grenada, CA

Hunter Orchards bills itself as the northernmost original U-pick pumpkin patch in California, tucked into Siskiyou County near the Oregon line. Beyond the pumpkin fields there's a hay maze for kids, apples and pears ready for picking, and homemade cider and jam sold at the stand. The patch opens every day in October, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and admission is free.

J&P Cosentino Family Farm

San Jose, CA

J&P Cosentino Family Farm is the last working orchard in San Jose — an urban farm in the old Valley of Heart's Delight, tended by five generations of the Cosentino family since 1945. Nearly 600 trees grow more than thirty varieties of peaches plus heirloom apricots, plums, prunes, nectarines, apples, figs, berries, persimmons, and grapes, all picked fully ripe and sold with farm classes, pop-ups, and events on-site.

Julian Farm & Orchard

Santa Ysabel, CA

Julian Farm & Orchard grows apples, pears, pumpkins, and berries on a Wynola property three miles from downtown Julian, with u-pick apple tours by reservation and fresh-pressed cider, cider slushies, and whole pies sold on site. The farm also runs an animal-sanctuary petting zoo, hayrides, a haybale maze, and axe throwing, with Harvest Fest through September and October and Daffodil Days each spring.

Lone Jack Orchards

Encinitas, CA

Lone Jack Orchards grows organic fruit on Lone Jack Road in the Olivenhain area of Encinitas, with figs as the signature crop alongside Eureka lemons and other seasonal fruit that rotates through the year. It's a small, family-run operation — check their site for what's ripe before you drive out, since availability shifts week to week with the harvest.

Mariani Orchards

Morgan Hill, CA

Mariani Orchards runs a harvest-season u-pick fruit experience on Half Road in Morgan Hill, with guided visits, photo stops, and picking guidance for the fruit it grows. The orchard closes for the off-season and typically reopens around mid-May. The farm keeps an active presence on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube even during the off-season, posting updates ahead of each spring reopening.

Noble's Orchards

Paradise, CA

Noble's Orchards grows stone fruit on Pentz Road in Paradise, including apples, peaches, nectarines and cherries, and propagates its own nursery stock on site. The farm sells direct from the property Sunday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and shows up at the Chico farmers market on Saturdays and Paradise's on Mondays. Call 530-877-4784 for what's ripe.

Nopalito Farm & Hopyard

Valley Center, CA

Nopalito Farm & Hopyard is a regenerative farm on 15 acres of chaparral foothills in Valley Center, on historic land of the Luiseño Payómkawichum people, stewarded by the Brownwood family since 2015. The certified organic orchards, flower fields, and botanicals share the land with wildlife habitat and cabins bookable through Hipcamp for overnight farm stays.

O'Dell's Organic U-Pick Pear Orchard

Julian, CA

O'Dell's grows pears under organic practices on Julian Orchards Drive, in the mountain district that made Julian famous for apples. Pears are a less common crop for the area's cool, roughly 4,000-foot elevation, which more typically favors apple varieties. No public schedule confirms current u-pick hours.

Ojai Olive Oil

Ojai, CA

Ojai Olive Oil Co. is an award-winning family olive farm in Ojai, California, known for its estate extra virgin olive oils, flavor-infused oils, balsamic vinegars, and olive oil cosmetics. Visitors can tour the farm and taste the oils on-site, or join the club for regular shipments.

OLaLa Farms

Nevada City, CA

OLaLa Farms, a family farm in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, cultivates and wildcrafts organically grown flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, barks, and roots in service of everyday natural wellness. Orchard crops include apples, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, and plums, alongside watercress and herbs.

OLaLa Farms

Nevada City, CA

OLaLa Farms is a family-owned farm in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, California, devoted to the art of self-healing through the cultivation and wildcrafting of organically grown flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, barks, and roots. The farm grows organic apples, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, plums, and watercress.

Old Peacefield Orchard

Julian, CA

Old Peacefield Orchard is on Wynola Road in Julian, California, in San Diego County's mountain apple country. Julian built its identity around apple orchards and pie shops after its 1870s gold-rush boom gave way to agriculture.

Oz Farm & Retreat Center

Manchester, CA

Oz Farm is an off-the-grid, solar- and wind-powered organic farm and retreat center on 240 acres in a private valley near Point Arena on the Mendocino coast, with the Garcia River running through it. Certified organic (CCOF) since 1990, the farm grows apples, pears, vegetables, and flowers, offers a June-through-November CSA, runs an 8-month farm apprenticeship, and hosts weddings, retreats, and workshops among its cabins, yurts, and geodesic domes.

Oz Farm & Retreat Center

Manchester, CA

Oz Farm & Retreat Center occupies 240 off-the-grid acres in a redwood-bordered valley near Point Arena, powered entirely by sun and wind, with the Garcia River running through. The farm has grown CCOF-certified organic apples, pears, and vegetables since 1990, runs a summer-to-fall CSA and weekly flower offerings, teaches an 8-month apprenticeship, and hosts weddings and retreats in cabins, yurts, and geodesic domes.

Oz Farm & Retreat Center

Manchester, CA

Hidden in a private valley near Point Arena with the Garcia River running through its 240 acres, Oz Farm has grown CCOF-certified organic apples, pears, and vegetables since 1990. The off-the-grid, solar- and wind-powered farm runs a weekly summer-through-fall CSA, grows flowers for bouquets and buckets, teaches aspiring farmers through an 8-month apprenticeship, and hosts weddings and retreats in its cabins, yurts, and domes among the redwoods.

Ridgedale Orchard & Vineyard

Ridgedale Orchard & Vineyard is off Ridgedale Drive in Riverside County, in the 92570 zip shared by Perris and Winchester near the edge of Temecula Valley wine country. Small orchard-vineyard operations in this stretch typically pair fruit trees with a few acres of wine grapes.

Sale Orchard

Red Bluff, CA

Sale Orchards farms 90 acres of prunes on Gilmore Ranch Road southeast of Red Bluff, ground the family's own sale brochure calls some of the best prune soil in Tehama County. It's a working orchard property, not a public u-pick stop — commercial prune production for the packing houses rather than a farm stand.

Salinas Family Orchard

Littlerock, CA

Salinas Family Orchard has grown tree-ripened peaches, nectarines, plums, Asian pears, and champagne grapes in Littlerock's high desert since 2003. Alongside U-pick access to the orchard rows, the family sells homemade peach jam and local peach honey from the farm stand. The operation runs seasonally through mid-October — check their Instagram before the drive out.

SAM COBB DATE FARMS: Order Dates Online All Year

Desert Hot Springs, CA

Sam Cobb Farms grows pesticide-free, world-class dates — Medjool, Barhi, and its own Black Gold variety — on family ranches in Desert Hot Springs and Blythe, established in 2002 by lifelong farmer Sam Cobb. Dates ship year-round from the online store, and from mid-October to mid-April visitors can buy on-farm or book a date farm tour in the Palm Springs area.

Shirak Honey and Orchard Pollination

Rancho Cordova, CA

Shirak Honey and Orchard Pollination operates out of Olson Drive in Rancho Cordova, in the Sacramento Valley's almond and stone-fruit belt. Beekeeping operations in this region typically split their year between honey production and contract pollination, trucking hives to orchards during almond bloom each February.

Shulman Dragon Fruit Orchard

Alik Shulman grows dozens of dragon fruit varieties on his Moorpark orchard, an hour outside Los Angeles. Visitors can taste different types on-site and buy fruit, cuttings, and rooted plants to start their own. What began as a personal collection has grown into a working orchard that draws rare-fruit growers from around Southern California.

Snow-Line Orchards

Snow-Line Orchard has grown apples in Oak Glen since 1898, when Isaac Ford first planted the land; Mert and Shirley Hudson have run it for more than 36 years since. Today it's an orchard, cidery, and winery in one, growing three dozen-plus apple varieties, pressing cider in a mill older than most of the surrounding town, and opening a raspberry patch to u-pick each August.

Stone Pantry Orchard

Yucaipa, CA

Stone Pantry Orchard sits on Oak Glen Road in Yucaipa's apple-growing highlands, open weekends from Labor Day through Thanksgiving for u-pick apples, pears, and wild blackberries. Visitors can press their own cider and buy it by the gallon or half-gallon. Weekday visits run by appointment only, and the orchard also hosts school tours, church retreats, and weddings.

Sunrise Orchards

California, CA

Sunrise Orchards farms walnuts and more than 100 varieties of stone fruit, including peaches, near Rio Oso, and runs a full nursery alongside the orchard selling plants and landscape materials. The operation combines a working farm with retail nursery sales under one roof. Reach them at 530-633-2057 or [email protected].

Tenerelli Orchards

Littlerock, CA

We us organic material, sustainable farming practices, and integrated pest management. We find this is the best for our customer, land, environment and workers. U-pick and shipped fruit boxes

The Big Red Barn, Murray Family Farms

Di Giorgio, CA

Murray Family Farms at Di Giorgio, east of Bakersfield, pairs its Big Red Barn farm market with seasonal u-pick, the famous Bakersfield Pumpkin Patch, and weekend farm fun. The family grows ripe-picked specialty fruit — from candy grapes and cherries to elderberries and Buddha's hand citron — sold at the farm, at farmers markets across California, and alongside comfort food from the Cal-Okie Orchard Kitchen, home of the Okie Pie.

The Farm Mendocino

Albion, CA

The Farm Mendocino sits on a coastal apple farm in Albion, where the surf of the Pacific is within earshot and Mendocino village is ten minutes north. Guests stay among the redwoods in a hundred-year-old blue barn, a cedar cabin with private outdoor tub, or a modern dome, while the farm presses its heirloom apples each fall, hosts a handful of intimate weddings a year, and gathers the community for seasonal events.

The Farm Mendocino

Albion, CA

The Farm Mendocino is a coastal apple farm and retreat in Albion, ten minutes from Mendocino, where guests stay in artisan cabins — a century-old redwood barn, a cedar shack, and a geodesic dome — set among redwoods and a heirloom apple orchard. The farm presses its apples into fresh cider each season, hosts four micro-weddings a year, and holds seasonal gatherings including an annual Christmas barn sale.

The Farm Mendocino

Albion, CA

On a coastal apple farm in Albion, The Farm Mendocino invites guests to slow down — stay in a century-old redwood barn, a cedar cabin with outdoor tub, or a dome beneath the redwoods, take a sauna in the orchard, and press apples in season. The farm hosts just four micro-weddings a year plus seasonal gatherings, from cider pressing to a bespoke Christmas barn sale.

Twin Peaks Orchards

An Instagram account under @twinpeaksorchards exists, but its bio and posts weren't accessible in this search, so location and the fruit grown couldn't be confirmed. The 'orchard' listing type is the only verified detail beyond the name.

U Pick Orchards Ranch Five West Coast Farms

Morgan Hill, CA

Ranch Five is a u-pick orchard on Monterey Road in Morgan Hill worked by West Coast Farms, part of the same cluster of family-run u-pick ranches that dot the Gilroy-Morgan Hill stone fruit corridor.

U Pick Orchards Ranch Four 101 Ranch Borello Farms

Gilroy, CA

Ranch Four is one of several independently farmed u-pick orchards clustered around Gilroy and Morgan Hill, an area long known for stone fruit and berries. This site is worked by Borello Farms under the 101 Ranch name on Castro Valley Road.

U Pick Orchards Ranch One Borugi Farms

Morgan Hill, CA

Ranch One sits on Monterey Road in Morgan Hill and is farmed by Borugi Farms, one of the family orchards that make up the area's u-pick network in the Santa Clara Valley's old stone fruit belt.

U Pick Orchards Ranch Three Borello Farms

Gilroy, CA

Ranch Three is a Borello Farms u-pick orchard on Godfrey Road in Gilroy, part of the same multi-ranch stone fruit network as Ranch Four down the road.

Wolf Orchard

Wolf Orchard sits along Road 99W, the old fruit-growing corridor through California's Sacramento Valley that's still lined with family orchards.

Woodspur Farms, LLC

Coachella, CA

Oasis Date, based in Coachella, is North America's largest date grower and processor, farming over 5,000 acres and handling roughly a billion organic Medjool dates a year as majority supplier to the Natural Delights brand. Descended from the first Medjool plantings in North America in 1912, the operation runs the world's first Regenerative Organic Certified date farm, pairing modern irrigation and soil-building with commitments to worker fairness.

Yellow Wall Farm

Santa Cruz, CA

Yellow Wall Farm is a nearly three-acre CCOF-certified organic family farm in a secluded valley along the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, named for a wall of 8,000 sunflowers planted for a family wedding. Allen and Judy Rose Hasty tend 30-year-old heirloom apple trees plus peaches, Asian pears, persimmons, avocados, and citrus, grow summer vegetables and Slow Food Ark of Taste varieties, and sell to local restaurants, New Leaf Community Foods, and a Saturday farm stand from August through November.

Boa Vista Orchards

Placerville, CA

Cold Creek Orchard

San Bernardino, CA

Guldseth Cherry Orchard

Cherry Valley, CA

Harris Orchards

Ripon, CA

Organic Eggs, Poultry, and Fruit ("Pomegranate Orchard")

Hesperia, CA

RB Family Orchard

Tehachapi, CA

Snow-Line Orchards

Oak Glen, CA

Troxell's Apple Orchard

Montgomery Creek, CA

Whalleys Orchard

Littlerock, CA